Kicker - Jaws actor takes a bite out of crime

NICK EICHER, HOST: The name Jonathan Searle may not ring a bell, but chances are, you’ve seen him before.

Searle is the incoming police chief in the community of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

AUDIO: He made me do it! He told me to do it! There are two kids with a cardboard fin!

That’s him nearly 50 years ago, a bit part in the 1974 blockbuster film Jaws filmed right there in Oak Bluffs.

So this seems like a case of life imitating art, Searle now as chief of police, though it’s unlikely he’ll be hunting any killer sharks.

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